Haley Thistle

Mr. Faire's Scarebrook #1 (complete)

I was first brought to Mr. Faire ages ago when Robin found me stashed away and hidden in a basement. Mr. Faire took me in as one of his own, and although I was the first Doll to come into the carnival, I was accepted readily. 

The first act I was in was called the ‘Living Music Box’. Mr. Faire had a unique prop made that looked like a giant music box and, as music played, I rose up from within, dancing and twirling. As years went on, the act changed some. New Dolls c...

Kitsune Boyfriend: Oriharu (special preview)

Oriharu snickers. “You call him Mr. Artie?” He shakes his head. “Sorry, he’s my brother so I can’t help but find it silly.”

“I call a lot of the others around here like that.” I fiddle with a piece of paper, twisting it around and distracting myself with it. “It’s just polite.”

“While you’re here, you’re family. No need with formalities.” Oriharu stretches out his legs and sighs in comfort.

“What made you leave then?” I ask.

Oriharu is...

Mermaid Girlfriend: Katori (complete)

    I was never interested in romance and the like when I was young. I was always too busy furthering my own goals and becoming who I wanted to be. I wanted to rule the ocean when I grew up, so the idea of dates or whatever never really crossed my mind. Even as I grew older, I had a regime to run, people to protect, faces to break. The idea of family crossed my mind several times, but it was one of those things I pushed aside. 

    ...

Robot Boyfriend: Ace (complete)

   For the last few months I have been dealing with an extremely stressful job. I work in insurance and have been assigned to handle the recent hero school set up by Hephaestus. Needless to say, it's taken up quite a bit of my time. I have had to set up an office at the school for all that I do there alone. 

   It was supposed to be this prestigious and wonderful job. I was told I would be seen as part of what made that school great. Instead I felt lik...

Misinformed: Chapter Thirteen

Sophie sat up with a cold sweat pouring down her body. Her shirt clung to her and her hair was matted against her face and neck. Her whole body shivered and her hands trembled as she reached to turn the light on. She looked around, unable to register where she was for a moment. Clutching her chest to took several deep gulps of air and calmed herself down.

The panic was still there.

She slid her feet off the bed and walked across the cold floor to the window and looked out. Black a...

Misinformed: Chapter Twelve

Sophie shoved down the lid of the suitcase and zipped it up. She pushed a loose strand from her face and huffed, setting it with the two others. Sophie turned on her heel, glancing around her room and making sure she had everything she needed immediately. She would do a final walk through before she left.

“You’ll only be gone a month, do you really need that much?” Silas asked, leaning in the doorway.

Sophie shrugged, “I may need more,” she looked at him. “They don’t...

Misinformed: Chapter Eleven

It was the smell of bacon and coffee that made her stir, but it was the hangover that woke her. She cussed in cotton-mouthed garble as she put her hand over her eyes and shielded them as she peeled them open. The room was surprisingly dark, unlike her room that was all sheer white curtains and silver light in the morning.

Sophie remembered the previous evening barely, if not at all. She remembered Margery screaming from a hospital bed, pissed and livid before the painkillers kicked in a...

Face & Voice Casts

I’ve always been curious about who you all see and hear when you read your favorite characters. I have ideas in my head but I always find ya’ll are way better at than me.

Tell me if you have face casts or voice casts for my characters! Please share. If I like yours I might make it canon.

Living Doll Boyfriend: Lancelot 2 (special preview)

“Get me at least three, and the kids and I will take them to Muna.” Lancelot says this and the kids all bounce and cheer. “Have you always liked drawing, Emberlie?”

I hug the sketch book close to my chest. I had never told anyone this before, but I want to tell Lancelot everything. “Even when I thought cleaning chimneys was all I was good for, I just wanted to draw.”

“I’ll go find you some colored pencils then. I think Mr. Faire may have some in his office.” He m...

Stickers are Coming

I previewed the Hearthway Hollow stickers a while back, but they aren’t the only new items coming to rewards! I’ve got other stickers coming, including a special bumper sticker! These will be included in lieu of love letters (my printer is dead!) So for the next few months make room for stickers on whatever you use stickers for.

Mershark Boyfriend: Nalunani (complete)

    When I was first born, I was hand chosen to be the bride of the Oyabun’s son. I am a Koi, and was thus deemed the most acceptable mate for my future husband. I was also chosen for my colors, the golden spots amongst the pearly white scales of my tail and body. Not only that, I was born with a rare face spot on my face. In the eyes of the Oyabun and the rest of the tribe, I was considered good fortune and would bring prosperity and wealth to my future husband. I was r...

Living Doll Boyfriend: Lancelot (special preview)

I find myself in the main tent, sitting myself at the back of the audience as the lights go down low and a stage light focuses on the center. There is a man there, tall and broad of shoulder. He grins into the crowd and flourishes out his top hat. 

“I am the one, the only, Mr. Faire!” He announces loudly and the crowd erupts into applause.

“Tonight,” Mr. Faire reaches into his hat, “we shall begin our evening with a most magical of show.” His arm disappears comple...

Music & Famine #2 (complete)

               The temple is strangely quiet and still. Now that the rains have come and have not ceased, the temple is filled with only the orphans. The schooling we host has ceased since the rains make the journey up to the temple impossible. The roads are impassable by flooding, and the threat of thunder and lightning is everywhere.

    The children are bored and have taken to th...

Mr. Faire's Scarebrooke 2 (special preview)

“Scarebrooke, the Neighborhood of Nightmares,” Bram murmurs off the sign. He squeezes my hand tight then brings it up to kiss my knuckles. “Such a fitting name for home. How ever do you do it, Button Eyes?”

“You treat me as if I am the first person to name a town,” I chuckle. “It is just a cute name. Nothing to be too awed by.”

“Ah, but it is!” Bram pulls me in for a soft kiss. “For ages we were just the Neighborhood. But now we have a name, we’re legit!”...

Music & Famine #1 (complete)

    Back in the day when my father was alive, he was a tyrant and a brute. He saw it as his role as God to rain down punishment and his divinity on the mortals we were supposed to protect. My siblings and I were made to use our gifts to further his supposed endeavors. He thought he was noble, he and his four knights worked together causing all sorts of disasters for the newly thriving and barely surviving mortals.

    Needless to say, m...

Saturday

Something special is going to post on Saturday so keep a look out!

Mr. Faire's Scarebrooke (special preview)

“Oh now, now,” Bram comes back towards me. “That is why I came to you. I remember your act, it was beautiful. You were beautiful.” He goes to touch me, but recoils his hands. “I wanted to offer you the role of the ballerina in the music box again.”

I scowl up at him. “But in your creepy little horror show!” I jab at his chest with my finger. It feels hollow, like I’m only stabbing at a shirt, but I don’t quite put this together. “I wouldn’t be a beautiful dancer ...

Merman Boyfriend: Kekoa

    I’ve always been a bit bigger than other kids. That’s just how my family is built. My dad is the biggest guy you’ll ever meet, and my mom is taller than most guys in the area. I was always picked on because of how I looked, I was made fun of for my weight, for the fact I looked older than everyone in my grade. For the longest time, I was ostracized, relegated to eating lunch alone and sitting in the farthest corner of the playground. 

 ...

Mershark Boyfriend: Nalunani 2 (special preview)

I go home, where Katori is fixing the bed. I feel the deep animal calling in my body. It’s becoming unbearable and I grit my teeth to push it down.

Katori looks up at me. “Everything ok?”

“No,” I say suddenly. Her eyes grow wide and she starts, but I cup my hand around her mouth. “I am going into heat.”

Katori squeals and puts her hands around my wrist. She looks...excited?

“No,” I snarl at her. “Katori, listen to me.”

She pushes my hand awa...

Jacque and Tupac (complete)

    I think there is something wrong with me. I mean, I know there a lot of things wrong with me, I would make a perfect case study. They could write a book about me and then make a movie then some bigshot actor like Cruise or some shit could play me and win an Oscar. That’s how fucked up I am. But, wading through all the muck and mire that I am, that is not what I am talking about.

    I’ve been with Tupac for a long time now, poss...

Mershark Boyfriend: Nalunani (special preview)

I smash my head against the wall and drag it against the rough walls. It hurts and the water burns along the raw wound, but blood soon begins to rise from the cut. I sigh with relief despite the pain I’m in, and I watch as the blood turns into a red cloud before my eyes.

I wait and I listen to the carnage upstairs. It is horrible and I don’t know if I have welcomed in a fate worse than the one I am living. But perhaps because of my mother and uncle, I can be spared. I can escape and...

Gnoll Girlfriend: Emmeline (complete)

    When I had taken the throne and become Empress of Culuweth, I thought I had taken the throne during the longest possible peace that the Gnolls had ever seen. For generations the Gnolls were seen as evil, vile, and contemptible creatures. Our previous runnings as slavers and murderers has followed us even until now, when we have done no such thing. My father outlawed the slave trade as soon as he was crowned emperor. He gave harsh punishment to those convicted of such c...

Rakshasa Girlfriend: Safiya (complete)

    My garden is now a graveyard, where I had once grown barley there are now the bodies of friends and family. Where I had grown my melons and gourds, there are those who could not be identified but were the family of Bastat all the same. These days, I have nightmares more about the future than what happened that night.

    “You need to drink something, Safiya, you’ve been working so hard all day.” Tiye has been working tirelessl...

Music & Famine Part 2 (special preview)

I open my eyes and huff. “It’s too warm in here.”

Keres glances to the fire. “We haven’t even added any wood to it.”

“It’s too hot!” I blurt. “I don’t like it. I don’t like you. So just stop bothering me!” I rush out of the room and down the hallway. I’m still burning up. Everywhere I go, it is way too hot. I just want to get cool. I just want to feel normal again.

I go into the great hall and wade down into the water that has pooled there. I knee...

Gorgon & Gargoyle Lovers (complete)

    I have always held a special fondness towards a friend of mine. It has been something I have kept close to my heart and secreted away for a very long time. My own shyness may be to blame for it, as well as a multitude of other things. I have at many a time wanted to voice my feelings to them, but at the last second I have chickened out. 

    Azlel is a gargoyle and as such, is one of the few people I can look at without stunnin...

Music & Famine (special preview)

I scowl at him. “I told you everything last night.” I jab my finger out to the hall. “You are to repair and fix everything you destroyed. Only then, will you be able to go and be set free.”

“We are doing no such thing. We are not touching this place.”

“Then you’re here forever and ever, Keres!” I kneel down to get in their face. “I am not bothered. But you will be for the rest of your days.”

“We hate how much we like you doing this to us,” Keres chu...

Gnoll Boyfriend: Edragon (complete)

    I was six years old when my father was...you know what? Over the years I have called his death so many things. His murder. His assassination. Sanguis even told me once that my father deserved what he got.

    “People like your father deserve their deaths. Because in the end, their failure will destroy everything around them. Like a disease, it spreads so like a disease you squash the carrier. You father carried that with him, and ...

Merman Boyfriend: Kekoa (special preview)

Kekoa sighs. “I fell for it,” he grumbles. “Especially with how you handle the little people.”

“Kids?” I ask.

“Yeah, the gross small versions.” Kekoa smiles up at me and takes hold of my hand. “It made me think how my Hau only has me now, and how much I don’t want him to be alone.”

“Your son?” I glance down at Kekoa and see his gentle, soft expression. “Hau, is it?”

Kekoka nods. “My mate abandoned Hau and I.” He grimaces and looks down...

Rakshasa Girlfriend: Aksha (complete)

    My parents have always been very protective of me, from the time I was born and even until now. With the recent attack on Bastat, my mother has been insisting I stay closer to home. But I know there is more I can do. King Dhaval, who I consider a close and great friend, needs all the help he can. The Unified Nations is slowly shattering thanks to the influence of this Sanguis Rex and his men. With the recent revelations about Demir, as well as his death, things look bl...

Account Change

Just letting every know that starting at the first of May I will start start charging new members upfront when they sign up. I have noticed a ton of account abuse. People sign up and then after a while they delete their pledge. It's caused me a lot of stress and heartbreak and while I have tried to give people the benefit of the doubt I can no longer let this slide.

This won't affect any of you who are regular patrons. This will only effect new patrons.